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...It said corporate liabilities from litigation between 2022 and 2030 could exceed U$100bn....
...Now President Joe Biden wants US regulators to investigate leading oil companies to see if they’re engaging in potentially illegal conduct that’s leading to higher fuel prices....
...And earlier this month regulators sued to block Nvidia’s acquisition of UK chip design company Arm from SoftBank, a deal valued at $82bn, following similar probes launched by the EU and UK....
...I’m in the business of finding what’s going to be popular in five or 10 years and they’re pretty good at that,” Rabois says. “The GDP of the United States is going to be driven by design and culture....
...As dHybrid Inc became embroiled in litigation, Mr Milton’s father, William, formed a new company in October 2012 called dHybrid Systems, which was legally distinct from dHybrid Inc and owned solely by William...
...In the 1970s, Ford Motor Company realised its Pinto car could kill if its fuel tank ruptured....
...The success of German manufacturers, whose volumes more than trebled from 4m units in 1990 to 15m last year, was largely based on “platform sharing” that let multiple models use the same design underpinnings...
...Recent growth in self-employment is being led by workers in relatively “privileged” high-skilled, higher-paying sectors such as advertising and banking, according to the Resolution Foundation, a think-tank...
...All four companies stressed they were on track to make the target by 2021, and said that future engines and vehicle designs would speed up their rate of emissions reduction in the coming years....
...“Every time we pick up a car, we’re making a bet on the company,” Mr Moorman says....
...When you get that right with any product, you unlock markets,” says Tim Brown, CEO of Ideo, a California design company that has worked with Apple....
...The Sonic is based on the same platform that GM uses for the Opel and Vauxhall Corsa in Europe, while the Ford Fiesta sold in the US is identical to the European model....
...“The new technology will improve hugely the flexibility that manufacturers have to design new parts and products for a range of reasons – whether this is increasing the fuel efficiency of a gas turbine or...
...The next version of Ford’s midsized Fusion sedan will be based on the Mondeo platform....
...In the space of a decade, the Italian company aims to have only three platforms on which it builds most of its models....
...No sooner have I come in than he says “look behind you” – and I turn to see a petrol tank in the corner. “That’s what I do”, he says....
...The Verve, Ford Motor’s low-slung purple hatchback in the spotlight at last month’s Frankfurt auto show, was more than just a prototype for the subcompact expected to succeed the company’s popular Fiesta...
...with making the company’s engineering and design staff work together more efficiently....
...The MG TF will be re-entering the hard-fought high-performance car segment, where companies with much longer track records than NAC’s have struggled, as seen in Ford Motor’s mis-steps with Jaguar since acquiring...
...But the partners might also be competitors, such as GM and Ford, who combined to conceive fuel-efficient gearboxes....
...It was facing bankruptcy in 1996, the year Ford took a controlling stake in the company, but has recently enjoyed something of a revival: it has boosted its product range with a number of new cars that are...
...Our product development processes were re-organized into the platform team approach to break down the walls between the various functional areas and enable focus on the vehicle programs themselves rather...
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